PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | sarcoma |
| Phenotype | C0001418|adenocarcinomas |
| Sentences | 2 |
| PubMedID- 25562202 | The most common abnormality in adenocarcinomas is mutation of the kirsten rat sarcoma gene (kras), found in 25% of samples. |
| PubMedID- 25506852 | Tumours of the small bowel account for less than 5% of all gastrointestinal malignancies.1 of these, the majority are histologically classed as carcinoid and adenocarcinomas, with sarcomas ranking 5th (∼1.2%).2 leiomyosarcoma is the most common sarcoma, but remains very scarce; with only 26 reported cases of primary small bowel leiomyosarcoma following robust immunohistological techniques.3,4 small bowel tumours are usually asymptomatic at the early stages, and difficult to visualise by upper and lower endoscopy.5 consequently, they often present late with poor prognosis. |
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